Copying files over a network

Rick rwbowers at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 14:50:54 PST 2008


On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Rick <rwbowers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have an old mail/web/ftp server based on SME Server. I want to build a
> new server and will need to copy all my email accounts from the old server
> to the new server.
>
> The old server is OLD, and does not support USB. I'm sure there is a way to
> copy files/directories over the network but don't know the proper
> command(s). I'd like to do something like cp -R but between two servers. Is
> this possible?
>
> It always helps to know what to tell Google to search for. I was looking
> for copy, but I found rsync which seems to do the remote copy for me. The
> other questions on distribution and email packages is still open for
> comments.


Thanks,

>
> ~Rick
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/linux-users/attachments/20081222/2896b0f2/attachment-0002.html 


More information about the Linux-users mailing list